The hybrid fulfillment tactic known as buy online, pickup in store is proving resilient in postpandemic retail business

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    For retailers including Walmart, Target, Macy’s and others, it is an extension of their attempts to use their physical stores as kinds of virtual fulfillment centers, a strategy that has grown out of the surge in online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic and the strain it exerted on companies’ distribution operations.